Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Aldersbach / Monastic buildings / Library / Vault - North Side (Mysticism)

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / Alanus ab Insulis (OCist) / Various activities / trampling heretics

Further details

detail; Krautheim identifies the prelate in a brown habit as St Bonaventure, but Franciscans do not wear a scapular. Possibly, it shows Alanus ab Insulis, a Doctor of the Sorbonne turned Cistercian Conversus.

Artist or creator

Günther, Matthäus (1705-1788)

Date

1760

Location

Aldersbach, Zisterzienserabtei

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Ulrike Krautheim, Das Bildprogramm der Klosterbibliothek in Aldersbach, in: Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereins für Niederbayern 110-111, Landshut 1984-1985, pp. 79-120, p. 86

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